PGE Cinema

10.00 –  Rocksteady – The Roots of Reggae, reż|dir Stascha Bader, 98′
11.20 – Hipsters, reż|dir Walerij Todorowski, 115′
15.00 – Micmacs à tire-larigot, reż|dir Jean-Pierre Jeunet, 105′
17.30 – Animal Kingdom, reż|dir David Michôd, 112′

Small Cinema

12.00 – Enemies of the People, reż|dir Rob Lemkin & Thet Sambath, 93′
14.00 – AWARD WINNINGS The Independent School and Amateur Short Films Competition
16.30 – The Simple Story About Love, reż|dir Arkadiusz Jakubik, 80′
18.30 – Shadow Play: The Making of Anton Corbijn,, reż|dir Josh Whiteman, 78′

The Audience Poll results are already known. Both ‘The Hipsters’ and ‘The Secret In Their Eyes’ are beyond the podium. We present the final list of films that have been regarded the best by TWO RIVERSIDES audience.

1. Shadow Play: The Making of Anton Corbijn 4,80
2. Waste Land 4,75
3. Kawasaki’s Rose 4,68

4. The Secret In Their Eyes 4,65
5. The Hipsters 4,63
6. Benda Bilili! 4,62
7. When You Are Strange 4,53
8. Animal Kingdom 4, 52
9. Micmacs 4,51
10. Kinshasa Symphony 4,36

Three key questions that Joanna Chludzińska and Paulina Kaucz asked Jan Hřebejk

After the screening of ‘Kawasaki’s Rose’ at Berlinale this year, you said that your film is more Polish than Czech. What did you mean by that?

When Petr Zelenka and I come to Poland, we feel really great here especially when everybody says they love our films. Some of them even exaggerate adding that they are much better than the Polish ones.

In 1980s we valued the Polish cinema of moral anxiety. We were inspired by Kieślowski, Zanussi, Wajda, Agnieszka Holland. Those films were so close to us, we treated them as ours. At the same time in Europe Fellini, Visconti made marvelous films, but they were different from our experiences. There weren’t such films in the Czech Republic. Social problem films that criticized the contemporary situation weren’t made here then. The majority of important filmmakers were expatriates and their films were forbidden- they weren’t released, were kept in storage and had to wait for better times. Věra Chytilová and Jiří Menzel, who worked in the Czech Republic at that time, made important but too creative films.

So calling my last film ‘Polish’ I probably thought about this influence of Polish cinematography on Czech films.

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The Independent School and Amateur Short Films Competition has already finished. The 20 members of the Jury have also completed their work and chosen the films that will receive the Main Prize and two Distinctions. Here are the results:

The Main Prize and 3000,00 PLN go to:

„Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark Room” directed by Kuba Czekaj. It’s a story about the limitless love of 11-year old girl Lata for her father. Lata is preparing a song for the school academy organized for the coming Father’s Day. It makes her watch her father closer than usual. While trying to describe her feelings for him, she starts to uncover his secrets

Two Distinctions and two prizes of 1000,00 PLN go to:

„8 stories that haven’t changed the world” directed by Ivo Krankowski. Eight characters – Polish Jews and Jewesses born between 1914 and 1933 – introduce us to the world of their youth, children memories and adventures. The story is build on the earliest memories and events. Personal stories, which combine into colorful image of the lost world.

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„Tomorrow I’ll be gone” directed by Julia Kolberger. The film is a story about a thirty-year-old Marta, who is tired of living with her invasive mother and trying to get away from this toxic relationship.

Congratulations to all prize-winning directors. We’d like to invite the spectators to the special screening of the prize-winning films which will be held in the Small Cinema on August 8.

The full list of the Independent Competition films, together with the Jury’s evaluation.

‘The Hipsters’ dethroned. ‘The Secret in Their Eyes’ beyond the podium. We present the latest results of the Audience Poll.

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MAŁGORZATA WALEWSKA AND ROBERT GRUDZIEŃ
7th of August, 7:30 pm, Farny Church
Kazimierz Dolny

There is a promise in the air of Impressive concerts promoting the latest album of famous mezzo-soprano Marlgorzata Walewska – the star of New York’s Metropolitan Opera and many other world music scenes. The artist´s recital can be acclaimed as artistic event of the year. Concerts of Malgorzata Walewska always attract crowds. Her famous name acts as a magnet for the audience who admires her voice not only in the largest opera halls but also in the temples. Her popularity can be testified by the fact that the American magazine “Time” declared her as one of the ten most famous Poles. She feels comfortable in the repertoire of opera, oratorio and cantata also uses popular or sacral music.
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The closing concert of this year’s edition of TWO RIVERSIDES Festival will be held at the Janowiec Castle on August 7 at 9:00 p.m. During the concert you will have a chance to listen to film music composed by Krzysztof Komeda. He is a pioneer of Polish modern jazz. He composed music to 65 films. The first picture he illustrated with music was Roman Polanski’s film etude Dwaj ludzie z szafą, and the last one Rosemary’s Baby with the celebrated Lullaby as its main theme. As a musician, he exerted major influence on the shape of the Polish jazz school. His music is still an inspiration. As part of DWA BRZEGI, the music recorded on celluloid film will be reminded and own compositions will be presented by:
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The meeting was held in ‘I Love Cinema’ Café just after the screening of his film. It was the director’s first visit to Poland, but being familiar with Polański’s works, he doesn’t perceive Poland as a completely foreign country. ‘MIYOKO’ was enthusiastically recognized by the audience not only because of its script but also because of the envelope around film adaptations of manga and the Japanese film industry.

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The meeting with the creators of the film ‘Lech Majewski: The world according to Bruegel’ and with Lech Majewski himself will be held in the Synagogue on August 6 at 5:00 p.m. It will be accompanied by the screening of this film and of three etudes made by Majewski: Grand Hotel, Bisowanie and Będzie Święto.

What is the film ‘Lech Majewski: The world according to Bruegel’ about? “The Way to Calvary”, painted by Pieter Bruegel in 1563, is one of his most extraordinary,  yet one of the least known masterpieces. Exhibited in Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna it still arouses imagination of art historians, artists as well as the ordinary audience.

Bruegel’s painting has been the major inspiration for the feature film “The Mill and the Cross” by Lech Majewski  – an outstanding Polish director. Production of “The Mill and the Cross” gathered both, Hollywood stars as well as hundreds of extras, while more than fifteen hundred of props and costumes were prepared for this purpose.

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For me Lech Majewski is the greatest contemporary ‘painter’ of the cinema. And it’s not only because he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts, and often refers to subjects connected with painting in his films- like in ‘The Garden of Earthly Delights’, for which Majewski derived the title and leitmotif from Bosch’s famous painting. He is the painter of the cinema because he is able to transfer to the film language all the beauty, harmony and symmetry which used to be portrayed by great masters in their paintings- especially by the Renaissance, ‘Venetian’ masters. What’s more, he is able to adapt the entire poetics of the 19^th century painting to the contemporary world. That’s most appreciated about him around the world. I wonder why in Poland his name isn’t mentioned in the same breath as the greatest Polish filmmakers’ names? Maybe it’s because he surpasses them, or doesn’t try to curry favor with the so-called entourage – which, as a matter of fact, knows well enough that Majewski, together with Polański, is one of the most recognized Polish film directors in the world, especially in the USA.

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There are four new films in the Audience Poll film list: The White Stripes Under the Great White Northern Lights, Desperados on the Block, The Black List and Vegas: Based on a True Story.

1. The Hipsters 4,64 
2. The Secter in Their Eyes 4,59 
3. Animal Kingdom 4,52 
4. Micmacs 4,51 
5. Kinshasa Symphony 4,36 
6. A Somewhat Gentle Man 4,34 
7. The White Stripes Under the Great White Northern Lights 4,19 New
8. Mother Teresa of Cats 4,18 
9. Deliver Us From Evil 4,13 
10. The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers 4,11

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The Small Cinema repertoire for August 6 and 7 has been changed.

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We’d like to invite you to the Polish premiere of Tsubota Yoshifumi’s ‘Miyoko’, held on August 6 at 3:00 p.m. The only screening of this film in Europe was at the festival in Rotterdam. The screening at TWO RIVERSIDES Festival will be opened by the director himself. Another opportunity to meet this fascinating filmmaker will be during a conference which will be held at 4:15 p.m. in ‘I Love Cinema’ Café.

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He compares cinema to a turtle, because it’s easier to write a novel than to make a film- and he knows both forms of art well. He adds: ‘What is significant in cinema is the recognition of constant processes existing irrespective of who possesses the power, the recognition of some kind of a nation’s though processes. Only then can this turtle-like process of creating a film be less important.” The profile of the director from A to Z… wrong, to T.

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